From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 53657 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2018 14:00:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 53281 invoked by uid 89); 21 Mar 2018 13:59:59 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=rice, Rice, Vince, vince X-HELO: mail-io0-f195.google.com Received: from mail-io0-f195.google.com (HELO mail-io0-f195.google.com) (209.85.223.195) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:59:58 +0000 Received: by mail-io0-f195.google.com with SMTP id y128so6760044iod.4 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:59:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:reply-to:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=uL0IfniRPxDmikZWaZBBL+KfuCvrTg50jdOZvIHK7sc=; b=ueltDnEPG4c0uwKdl0ijJR6u2pINFtMgSAwaeS7fXTfCMQg6rIc2nmFQPRJbv3dgTT nNn5psEICeZhFdagFw3a3/7blJlakMIwgX5cxHOwFyjkIAvlga4YsgF77xiY2QArS39L 1869VLkfmq9Mri7GjFFQRoQzgIt1Bhd58+Uy0cjehQX2gF+S5viSBbPthwvtwyuQ28DD Zo/PFJMp61LSOLFH9gk3T35D8o3w2h3K49iX+FaKk52OxfPjXUMtIWWzK5GzsZmlFLy8 RwPoDudBHw/sshJz7iCdzquYA8k/C2lNbktMZehXydii7DqaBABmldw1QTbGYZWdEcwI 8GvA== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7HqwCpAxtSAAp0Q/mpE6By2cQtGKKCtYIscFQ9u8CPB5qz9w6dV VQWFp4/Bh0ijXaoCjG0BzcQGSA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELsTl0IWVWFp4T7D1XGqDVYM8nghv0IlQZJ/T/qb0qX+WOg5u/mcYGmqcsmRn10wU9RI60OcFg== X-Received: by 10.107.4.196 with SMTP id 187mr20755225ioe.146.1521640796367; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:59:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.19] (d4-50-42-50.try.wideopenwest.com. [50.4.50.42]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 193-v6sm3263504itv.7.2018.03.21.06.59.55 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 21 Mar 2018 06:59:55 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: GitForWindows vs. Cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <587wcTwzy5968Set.1521586344@web02.cms.usa.net> <324994357.20180321024235@yandex.ru> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: cyg Simple Message-ID: Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 14:26:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00325.txt.bz2 On 3/21/2018 4:49 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > On 21.03.2018 05:02, Vince Rice wrote: >>> On Mar 20, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Tony Kelman wrote: >>>>> Can anyone enlighten me about the relationship of "Git for Windows" >>>>> to Cygwin? >>>> They are not related. >>> Yes, they are. >> No they're not. > Tony explained well how they are related; Git for Windows is compiled in > and packaged with MSYS2 which is forked from Cygwin. Git for Windows AKA MSysGit is a native build of git using MSYS as the shell support. It is not related to Cygwin and the Cygwin git. They are different as the Cygwin git uses POSIX sematics throughout while the native version doesn't do that. Using Cygwin git alongside the native git version will in the end bite you in the ass. I know from experience that this is the case. I've screwed up more than one patch because of using different git distributions of Cygwin versus native. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple